Improvement in spouts and strainers



F. a. & w. F. NIEDRINGHAUS.

SPOUTS AND STRAINERS.

No. 189,641. Patented. April 17, 1877.

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FREDERICK G. NIEDRINGHAUS AND WILLIAM F. NIEDRINGHAUS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPOUTS AND STRAINERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,641, dated April 17, 1877; application filed March 7, 1877.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FREDERICK G. NIED- RINGHAUS and WILLIAM F. NIEDRINGHAUS, residents of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Inprovement in the Mode of Attaching Spouts and Strainers of Vessels of Enameled Sheet-Iron-Ware, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional view, showing the lower or inner end of the spout and the strainer, and as prior to the attachment to the body of the vessel and Fig. 2, a similar view, showing the spout and strainer as attached to the vessel.

Similar letters refer to similar parts.

In the annexed drawing, A represents the spout; B, the strainer; and ,O, the body of the vessel. The spout is made ready for attachment by swelling it slightly outward so as to form a fold or corrugation a, Fig. 1, into whlch the strainer B is sprung, as shown. The inner end a of the spout, and which is made to fit the spout-opening, is then passed into the body 0 as far as the corrugation or thereabout, and then, by means of suitable appliances, the inner end a is turned up upon the inside of the body 0, forming a flange around the spout-opening, and the corrugation aflattened and closed down upon the outside of the body. The vessel is then coated with an enamel, serving to close the joint and give the vessel a finished appearance.

We claim 1. In vessels of enameled sheet-iron Ware, the spout A, having the corrugation a, and fiange'a, and the body 0, combined substantially as described.

2. In vessels of enameled sheet-iron ware, the spout A, having the corrugation a and flange a, the strainer B, and body 0, combined, substantially as described.

F. G. NIEDBINGHAUS. WM. F. NIEDRINGHAUS.

Witnesses:

CHAS. D. MOODY, SAML. S. BOYD. 

